It's just absolutely astonishing that Lionsgate had a script for Borderlands from Craig Mazin (The Last of Us and Chernobyl) that was reportedly fantastic, but allowed Eli Roth to come in and rewrite it.
Was it really fantastic though? Before "Chernobyl", these are his movies as a writer: Scary Movie 3 Scary Movie 4 Superhero Movie The Hangover Part II The Hangover Part III Identity Thief The Huntsman: Winter's War These all range from crap to just barely not crap. Did he get lucky with his dramas, or is he just better at serious dramas? Either way, nothing in that resume suggests that a Borderlands movie from him would've been any good.
@Alejandroigarabide he's executive producer on the first one, and he was the producer of 2 and 3. He's actually the reason 3 became so overstuffed. He actually has more luck as an executive producer, when in the producer role he has about a 20 percent chance of making something decent
Everyone always shits on actors for taking money over quality sometimes. But most of us would take a massive paycheck if it meant acting in a shitty movie. Good on them
Not surprised about Boderlands. I snuck into an IMAX at my local theater just to see how it looks after they renovated it and added Laser projection and the entire auditorium was empty. Not one single soul was watching the movie lmao.
What’s crazy is, it doesn’t matter how cool or not boarderlands is as a gaming franchises, bc there’s already SO MANY better options to make a big budget live action movie out of of than damn boarderlands which is like a B or B- rank gaming popularity. Not A class or S class😂
Most movies have no audience until a good trailer. But with established things, you have a base fanbase, which is good. Then you make it attractive to the general audience.
True story, as I was watching this, when Dan started talking about Borderlands bombing there was an Earthquake in Los Angeles. So even Planet Earth shudders at the thought of that movie existing. Keep up the great work, Dan!
Mad respect to Lively and Reynolds for tag teaming promo. Genius move. Lively only has to mention her husband and deadpool at her junkets and she gets so many more eyeballs on her work than a traditional media campaign! Genius.
AVI ARAD has ruined so far... * Daredevil (2003) * The Punisher (2004) * Elektra (2005) * Fantastic Four (2005) * X-Men: The Last Stand * Spider-Man 3 * Bratz (2007) * Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 * Ghost in the Shell (2017) * Venom: Let There Be Carnage * Uncharted (2022) * Morbius * Borderlands And now he's gonna ruin... * Kraven the Hunter * Venom: The Last Dance * Legend of Zelda * Naruto As long Arad lives, there's no hope
Steven Spielberg December 2011 - The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse. John Mctiernan August 1999 : The Thirteenth Warrior and The Thomas Crown Affair. There's two.
Dan MURRELL continues to be the best person on RUclips when it's comes to box office analytics and on what's successful and what's not , I may not always agree but I will appreciate his honesty and laid back nature KEEP ROCKING ON DAN 😎
Looks like the main block for D&W to hit MCU top 5 is the language barrier. You can see that it overperformed in English as main language countries, but underperforms in countries where they do not, particularly China and Japan. This is consistent with comedies as humor is difficult to translate
One thing happening this week at Cinemark theaters is they are releasing a few movies for single showings on certain movies from 1984 since Cinemark first started in 1984. For example, they are playing The Karate Kid tonight, I think The Terminator is tomorrow night, and this is happening throughout the week.
I feel Snow White gonna be worse. I don't think it's gonna even do 300M & they already spent 320M in budget without counting the cost in marketing & promotion. Plus Disney already lied with the Little Mermaid budget & it was revealed the real budget was 300M not 200M as they said so the Snow White one could be actually over 400M
Those movies move an incredible amount of merchandise and feed the theme park attractions, so they make a lot of money outside of the box office that other regular movies don't have access to. And the original Snow White is 70 years old, so the movie will revive merchandise for that very old IP
These movies costing that much is just deranged. You could make a Snow White adaptation for a few million dollars - just film in a real castle and forest, hire some actors of appropriate stature to play the dwarfs, and use some subtle limited CGI or practical effects for the magic.
38:42 The whole someone discovers a friend or family member is secretly a spy has to be one of the most played out tropes. It feels like Neflix already made this movie several times!
I thought Netflix made this movie already with last year's The Family Plan (also starring Mark Wahlberg) but I guess they're technically different because that one was about assassins instead of spies.
It Ends With Us was a nice surprise to me. Coupled with Aliens and the holdovers from late summer, the late summer to fall window is looking like it could blow the strike affected 2023 window out of the water.
14:50 This has long been a complaint I've had with a lot of Oscar films. I'd love to have the chance to see them before the award shows but they simply aren't playing near me & worse they come out so close to said award shows that you can't even rent them at home! And then the Academy has the audacity to ask why no one tunes in to the Oscars! Why should I tune in when I don't even know what's competing?
It Ends With Us was my sleeper pick for the Box Office Top 10! My wife and all her friends loved the book and I think they were part of an audience that doesn't normally go to the movies that showed up this weekend.
Hey Dan, do you think you’ll ever bring back the segment where you pay homage to those that have passed away in the music industry? I appreciated seeing that segment!
I owe Blake Lively an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with her game. She opened a glorified Lifetime movie, late in the summer & it’s already made its money back on the opening weekend.
I roped my brother into taking me to see the screening of Lawrence of Arabia yesterday, and while it’s been well over a decade since my only other viewing (on DVD, on a relatively small screen), there were no glaring technical issues with the presentation that I noticed. The theater, however, was definitely doing modern theater things, as there was some audio bleed in from the next screen during some of the more quiet moments, and my brother was annoyed by a dude to his left that was mumbling throughout (and even I noticed that he was on his phone during the entre’acte after intermission).
There's something to be said for a bomb that's based not just on overblown budget but on truly no public interest in seeing it. A movie that made 100 mil on a 300mil budget obviously would lose more money, but that movie still would have magnitudes more viewers and public interest than Borderlands drew. They managed to make something that basically NOBODY wanted.
Glad to see a well-made mainstream romantic drama like "It ends with us" doing well. Movie theaters needs all kinds of movies, not just action wannabe blockbusters and kids movies.
This weekend we'll have an action movie, a romantic drama and a horror film in the top 3 and 2 family-friendly films in the top 10 over a month after their releases and the box office will look healthy. That's what you get when you have different movies appealing to different audiences. When will Hollywood learn?
39:58 looking forward to the ranking! I would to see you do a ranking of the James Bond series one day, maybe when we eventually get news on the casting and the director of the next movie!
There were numerous red flags with Borderlands that made even fans of the games, myself included, know this was going to be bad. -A very divisive director (Eli Roth) -Casting choices that felt like they were pulled from a hat -PG-13 Rating for a usually M-rated game series. -Numerous changes to the games to the point where it felt like the Borderlands name was slapped on it for marketing.
It's shocking that the film got made, and with that cast. Did Nobody in charge of the cheque books stop for a moment to ask Who would be interested in This cast in That film?!
Dude I can’t wait for that aliens ranking video. The amount of versions of some of these films is insanity. I don’t even wanna imagine the quantity of you count fan edits.
When the time comes that you wrap up final numbers for the summer season, would you mind doing a top 15 or top 20, for those of us who picked movies to be in the top 10 that fall short? Borderlands and Mad Max REALLY threw off my predictions. I guess post-apocalyptic stories play best on Amazon (Fallout).
I spent the last month hearing People say how big of a hit Twisters is and Hollywood should Make more movies for Middle America blah blah blah and now Dan is saying With VOD it HITS BREAK EVEN? What happened?
What happened is that only a dozen or fewer $150 million movies break even in their theatrical run. And it’s only week four with Twisted in third place and only down 35 percent from the previous week. It’s a huge hit and will end the year as one of the top ten most profitable big budget movies.
I can't remember if you did this in previous years, but it would be interesting if you could talk about the biggest success and and biggest flop at the end of 2024
@@RayMcElroy50 Yes, we get it. You finally learned to read the credits of a movie. You can stop crying in every thread now. I'll also blame the fact that Borderlands is an awful IP and Eli Roth is an atrocious filmmaker as well.
I truly cannot understand why 'It Ends with Us' is so damn popular. Up here in Canada, I decided to go to the websites of my local theater chains today and check out the seat previews as it will show how many tickets have been sold so far for what time screenings. This movie is selling more tickets per screening than Deadpool and Wolverine. I thought it was crazy when I saw the cineplex at a popular mall had a 260+ seat screening room nearly sold out today outside the first couple of rows. However I later checked out a smaller theater which only had one massive screen room that's nearly 500 seats (a little over 470 to be more specific), and this movie nearly selling out the entire theater outside the first few rows! Still a few hours before the actual showing, so maybe it can get a near sold out 470+ seat theater.
I think that Inside Out will end a little bit above Deadpool&Wolverine, but it will be an interesting run!! And both extremely successful, probably the two most successful movies of 2024 in the US
LEGEND OF ZELDA will only stand a chance if Wes Ball works as a producer It's the only way he can save it from AVI ARAD Because that's how Phil Lord and Chris Miller made Spiderverse work
I would imagine Nintendo negotiated themselves final approval over all creative decisions as part of the film's development. Doesn't guarantee the movie will turn out great, but it should prevent any one person from making questionable creative decisions.
Saw Trap and Didi this weekend. Had a lot of fun with Trap. It's very Shyamalanish, and far from a masterpiece, but I enjoy his style. Didi was a whole lot less fun. Basically a concentrated dose of every childhood memory that comes back to you as you're falling asleep to make you cringe out of your skin.
Borderlands opening behind week 3 of a superhero movie, the opening of a romantic drama (how often do we see those in cinemas?!), and week 4 of a legacy sequel is...bad. With a capital BAD.
Whenever someone says "just turn off your brain and enjoy the movie" I think they must have the lowest standards (or none at all) and never think for themselves. I never take them seriously once they blurt out that nonsense.
We watched Jessica Alba's Trigger Warning last night. That was the best of the over-priced Netflix blockbuster action "films". Better than Red Notice or the one with Chris Evans & Ryan Gosling.
It Ends With Us will certainly be summers 9th movie past $100M domestic. Alien maybe the 10th. A slow summer for 100M grossers , especially conpared to 2023 which had 13 movies make the mark. If its a valid excuse, strikes slowed down the releqse schedule
Hey Dan jusy curious if you'll be making a News w/ Dan or seperate video recapping all the D23 news and some of your own thoughts on the announcements.
While I thought Borderlands wasn't as bad I expected, lowered expectations helped. I can say it did something positive for me in that it restored my faith in humanity. A father and two kids sat in front of me, both kids looked younger than 6 or 7 and they were angels, not a peep out of them while the film played. I can now use them as an example to call out adults. Also caught Cuckoo (not as good as expected), but decent. Then caught Lawrence of Arabia, a classic.
I saw DvW a second time with my daughter, people had ruined the Gambit surprise. We are Cajun people, so she nearly died when Channing Tatum dropped the swamp french. Edit: The audience was on Thursday night, half adults, and half boomers.
This week I skipped going to see Borderlands in theaters, so next week to compensate, in addition to seeing Alien:Romulus I'll be checking out The Count of Monte Cristo (French movie) as well as Jour de Chasse (Hunting Daze). Bringing my 2024 total to 65 so far.
25:30 One of the reasons Sing Sing is so slow on the rollout is because A24 REALLY wants to build good word of mouth with it. It's considered to be a front runner for next years Academy Award's and could very well win Best Picture if nothing else surprises and A24 plays their cards right.
Small suggestionwhen showing the streaming results. Could you in brackets show the original release date in theatres. So like Failure to Launch (2006). Thank.
Thank you for the charts Dan! Looking forward to your review of Romulus. Will you also be posting a review of “Rob Peace”? I loved Chiwetel Ejiofor’s last film “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”.
My husband and I loved your Godzilla and Kong rankings. We are super excited for your Alien rankings as it’s one of our favorite franchises. Anxious for the Alien Romulus review as well
damn! deadpool still making over 50,000 in 3rd week is crazy. That number is above what most movies hope to make in their FIRST week.
I know you have a typo….. $50 million.., is crazy and wonderful for D&W!
It's just absolutely astonishing that Lionsgate had a script for Borderlands from Craig Mazin (The Last of Us and Chernobyl) that was reportedly fantastic, but allowed Eli Roth to come in and rewrite it.
I blame Avi Arad
Was it really fantastic though? Before "Chernobyl", these are his movies as a writer:
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Superhero Movie
The Hangover Part II
The Hangover Part III
Identity Thief
The Huntsman: Winter's War
These all range from crap to just barely not crap. Did he get lucky with his dramas, or is he just better at serious dramas?
Either way, nothing in that resume suggests that a Borderlands movie from him would've been any good.
People always try to imagine these unused scripts are "fantastic". I wouldn't put too much stock in that.
@desertsuede4 The script was fantastic, it was reportedly what attracted Kate in the first place.
@@desertsuede4 You are as good as your last job.
This weekend I watched Dìdi, Sing Sing, and Cuckoo. So… a trilogy of films with titles that are the same syllable repeated.
Who could possibly have predicted that Borderlands would have flopped?? Oh right. . . . everyone who saw the trailer and/or the cast announcement.
I knew when I saw that Avi Arad was attached
The cast is awesome! It's the story and characters that caused it to flop. Not even the best cast in the world could have saved that.
@@Zombiesnyder13Didn't Avi Arad produce the best pre-MCU Marvel movies? The Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy.
That trailer was a train wreck, and that was just the trailer...
@Alejandroigarabide he's executive producer on the first one, and he was the producer of 2 and 3. He's actually the reason 3 became so overstuffed. He actually has more luck as an executive producer, when in the producer role he has about a 20 percent chance of making something decent
I just hope Cate Blanchett got her bag
Everyone always shits on actors for taking money over quality sometimes. But most of us would take a massive paycheck if it meant acting in a shitty movie. Good on them
@@ther3aper561 yeah, she just a simple middle-class multi-millionaire!
The only Hollywood actress better than Cate Blanchett is Meryl Streep. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the budget went to her salary.
Not surprised about Boderlands. I snuck into an IMAX at my local theater just to see how it looks after they renovated it and added Laser projection and the entire auditorium was empty. Not one single soul was watching the movie lmao.
I honestly never felt like Borderlands was that big of a gaming franchise either to have major success from a movie like that
What’s crazy is, it doesn’t matter how cool or not boarderlands is as a gaming franchises, bc there’s already SO MANY better options to make a big budget live action movie out of of than damn boarderlands which is like a B or B- rank gaming popularity. Not A class or S class😂
Most movies have no audience until a good trailer. But with established things, you have a base fanbase, which is good. Then you make it attractive to the general audience.
That could be its whole own interesting channel that follows the “gaming box office”
I saw Twisters with my mom this weekend. We both loved it, I hope people do see it in theaters as the sound design is incredible in theaters.
Twisters will be streaming in a week or 2
@@adamblack6867 Bro, it's was available yesterday.
True story, as I was watching this, when Dan started talking about Borderlands bombing there was an Earthquake in Los Angeles. So even Planet Earth shudders at the thought of that movie existing. Keep up the great work, Dan!
Everyone predicted borderlands was going to bomb the moment the cast was revealed
I predicted on the moment I saw Avi Arad's name attached
I predicted it when they said it’d be live action
Hey Dan, I just wanted to say thank you for recommending seeing Lawrence of Arabia in theaters. I went yesterday and really enjoyed the experience.
Awesome - glad to hear it!
The cinematography itself is an amazing actor!
Mad respect to Lively and Reynolds for tag teaming promo. Genius move. Lively only has to mention her husband and deadpool at her junkets and she gets so many more eyeballs on her work than a traditional media campaign! Genius.
AVI ARAD has ruined so far...
* Daredevil (2003)
* The Punisher (2004)
* Elektra (2005)
* Fantastic Four (2005)
* X-Men: The Last Stand
* Spider-Man 3
* Bratz (2007)
* Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
* The Amazing Spider-Man 2
* Ghost in the Shell (2017)
* Venom: Let There Be Carnage
* Uncharted (2022)
* Morbius
* Borderlands
And now he's gonna ruin...
* Kraven the Hunter
* Venom: The Last Dance
* Legend of Zelda
* Naruto
As long Arad lives, there's no hope
Zelda?! Fuck. That poor movie...
Wait, are they really making a live-action Naruto movie? I guess Boruto will no longer be the worst thing to come out of that series now.
Yes yes. We all know that. I see you posting the same comments again and again. But the important thing is to avoid.
You know he also produced iron man 1 and every Spider-Man ever made animated or not
Cut the man some slack
Venom: Let There Be Carnage was actually very well received.
How many cases of a director having more than one film in the top 5 simultaneously are there?
Steven Spielberg December 2011 - The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse.
John Mctiernan August 1999 : The Thirteenth Warrior and The Thomas Crown Affair.
There's two.
Thanks for all of your hard work on charts!
Quick Change is on of the great comedies of that time. I still quote that movie regularly.
Dan MURRELL continues to be the best person on RUclips when it's comes to box office analytics and on what's successful and what's not , I may not always agree but I will appreciate his honesty and laid back nature KEEP ROCKING ON DAN 😎
Looks like the main block for D&W to hit MCU top 5 is the language barrier. You can see that it overperformed in English as main language countries, but underperforms in countries where they do not, particularly China and Japan. This is consistent with comedies as humor is difficult to translate
I watched Lawrence of Arabia yesterday and it was a wonderful experience. Thankfully, everything ran smoothly and there were no problems at all.
One thing happening this week at Cinemark theaters is they are releasing a few movies for single showings on certain movies from 1984 since Cinemark first started in 1984. For example, they are playing The Karate Kid tonight, I think The Terminator is tomorrow night, and this is happening throughout the week.
love that international poster for deadpool and wolverine. seems like a homage to the streetfighter games. (sagat vs vega)
I feel Snow White gonna be worse. I don't think it's gonna even do 300M & they already spent 320M in budget without counting the cost in marketing & promotion. Plus Disney already lied with the Little Mermaid budget & it was revealed the real budget was 300M not 200M as they said so the Snow White one could be actually over 400M
It's a "live action" movie with almost all cgi characters. I don't get it, I hope these soulless remakes fail
Those movies move an incredible amount of merchandise and feed the theme park attractions, so they make a lot of money outside of the box office that other regular movies don't have access to. And the original Snow White is 70 years old, so the movie will revive merchandise for that very old IP
These movies costing that much is just deranged. You could make a Snow White adaptation for a few million dollars - just film in a real castle and forest, hire some actors of appropriate stature to play the dwarfs, and use some subtle limited CGI or practical effects for the magic.
@@KeithFraser82 It is specially when they don't have big names that box office draws
I could care less for Snow White. I rather rewatch the original animated movie to avoid any heated debates.
38:42 The whole someone discovers a friend or family member is secretly a spy has to be one of the most played out tropes. It feels like Neflix already made this movie several times!
Mark will be bringing it a fresh, nuanced take with his charisma and renowned skill as an actor.
I thought Netflix made this movie already with last year's The Family Plan (also starring Mark Wahlberg) but I guess they're technically different because that one was about assassins instead of spies.
@@troyen3869 exactly! Also True lies, Spy Kids, Mr and Mrs Smith, Keeping Up with the Joneses any many more!
It Ends With Us was a nice surprise to me. Coupled with Aliens and the holdovers from late summer, the late summer to fall window is looking like it could blow the strike affected 2023 window out of the water.
Damn, thought this was Aquaman 2’s chance to get back on the 365 day chart one more time since it had $434 million
14:50 This has long been a complaint I've had with a lot of Oscar films. I'd love to have the chance to see them before the award shows but they simply aren't playing near me & worse they come out so close to said award shows that you can't even rent them at home! And then the Academy has the audacity to ask why no one tunes in to the Oscars! Why should I tune in when I don't even know what's competing?
If Borderlands isn't the modern definition of a cash grab, I don't know what usurps it.
“She can’t get away from Ryan Reynolds” the way I cackled 💀🤣
Love all the work you put into this series Dan!
Is “underrated modern shark films” really a category?
Ryan and Blake are truly made for each other... nice
It Ends With Us was my sleeper pick for the Box Office Top 10! My wife and all her friends loved the book and I think they were part of an audience that doesn't normally go to the movies that showed up this weekend.
Hey Dan, do you think you’ll ever bring back the segment where you pay homage to those that have passed away in the music industry? I appreciated seeing that segment!
7:03 Garfield wouldn't count as a remake of Garfield: The Movie (2004)?
I love the box office breakdown of the weekend I was born 🎉🎉🎉
I owe Blake Lively an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with her game. She opened a glorified Lifetime movie, late in the summer & it’s already made its money back on the opening weekend.
I roped my brother into taking me to see the screening of Lawrence of Arabia yesterday, and while it’s been well over a decade since my only other viewing (on DVD, on a relatively small screen), there were no glaring technical issues with the presentation that I noticed. The theater, however, was definitely doing modern theater things, as there was some audio bleed in from the next screen during some of the more quiet moments, and my brother was annoyed by a dude to his left that was mumbling throughout (and even I noticed that he was on his phone during the entre’acte after intermission).
initially i read this as raped.
I'm really looking forward to alien ranking.
There's something to be said for a bomb that's based not just on overblown budget but on truly no public interest in seeing it. A movie that made 100 mil on a 300mil budget obviously would lose more money, but that movie still would have magnitudes more viewers and public interest than Borderlands drew. They managed to make something that basically NOBODY wanted.
Glad to see a well-made mainstream romantic drama like "It ends with us" doing well. Movie theaters needs all kinds of movies, not just action wannabe blockbusters and kids movies.
uh, its a movie about domestic violence , not a romantic drama
@@aliali-ce3yf Uh, I saw it and it's definitely a romantic drama - about overcoming and escaping DV. I didn't say "romantic comedy".
Sony seems to be the only studio currently sendng these types of movies to the theares and not streaming (Anyone but you, No hard feelings).
This weekend we'll have an action movie, a romantic drama and a horror film in the top 3 and 2 family-friendly films in the top 10 over a month after their releases and the box office will look healthy. That's what you get when you have different movies appealing to different audiences. When will Hollywood learn?
I didn't even know Harold and the Purple Crayon was already in theaters
Because nobody cares about that movie too.
Brilliant box office flashback deep dive Dean!
39:58 looking forward to the ranking! I would to see you do a ranking of the James Bond series one day, maybe when we eventually get news on the casting and the director of the next movie!
Whoa, hold up, Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding Jr. were in a movie in the top 10 and we're not talking about it?!
There were numerous red flags with Borderlands that made even fans of the games, myself included, know this was going to be bad.
-A very divisive director (Eli Roth)
-Casting choices that felt like they were pulled from a hat
-PG-13 Rating for a usually M-rated game series.
-Numerous changes to the games to the point where it felt like the Borderlands name was slapped on it for marketing.
It's shocking that the film got made, and with that cast. Did Nobody in charge of the cheque books stop for a moment to ask Who would be interested in This cast in That film?!
Nobody analyses like Dan analyses - who else would know when the last time a husband and wife had movies at No 1 and No 2?
Dude I can’t wait for that aliens ranking video. The amount of versions of some of these films is insanity. I don’t even wanna imagine the quantity of you count fan edits.
It Ends With Us? Nah. It ends with xenomorphs. I’m going to see “Alien: Romulus” this week.
I hope Borderlands doesn't kill its the studio like the power couple Harlin/Davis did with Cutthroat Island
I was not expecting to hear about "L'Armée des Ombres" in this video 😀
And "merci" for these charts.
9:27 Bruse giving Patrick a look there 😂
When the time comes that you wrap up final numbers for the summer season, would you mind doing a top 15 or top 20, for those of us who picked movies to be in the top 10 that fall short? Borderlands and Mad Max REALLY threw off my predictions. I guess post-apocalyptic stories play best on Amazon (Fallout).
I'd love to see these against cost of production and advertising. Nice job Dan!
LOVE Quick Change
I spent the last month hearing People say how big of a hit Twisters is and Hollywood should Make more movies for Middle America blah blah blah and now Dan is saying With VOD it HITS BREAK EVEN? What happened?
Most movies don't break even on cinema tickets.
@rmsgrey HIT movies do. And that's what Everyone was telling me this was since week 1
It’s because it didn’t do that well internationally.
What happened is that only a dozen or fewer $150 million movies break even in their theatrical run. And it’s only week four with Twisted in third place and only down 35 percent from the previous week. It’s a huge hit and will end the year as one of the top ten most profitable big budget movies.
@choreomaniac so it's a HUGE hit....but also need VOD to break even and maybe hit profit. How can both things be true?
Talk about a power couple. I love Blake and Ryan together. They’re so cute.
I can't remember if you did this in previous years, but it would be interesting if you could talk about the biggest success and and biggest flop at the end of 2024
You are a great data analyst!
Other breaking news:
Water…Wet
#IBlameAviArad
@@RayMcElroy50 Yes, we get it. You finally learned to read the credits of a movie. You can stop crying in every thread now. I'll also blame the fact that Borderlands is an awful IP and Eli Roth is an atrocious filmmaker as well.
SPOILER for Deadpool and Wolverine
Blake was also in Deadpool and Wolverine as LadyPool. She is in the number 1 and 2 movies this week.
I truly cannot understand why 'It Ends with Us' is so damn popular. Up here in Canada, I decided to go to the websites of my local theater chains today and check out the seat previews as it will show how many tickets have been sold so far for what time screenings. This movie is selling more tickets per screening than Deadpool and Wolverine. I thought it was crazy when I saw the cineplex at a popular mall had a 260+ seat screening room nearly sold out today outside the first couple of rows. However I later checked out a smaller theater which only had one massive screen room that's nearly 500 seats (a little over 470 to be more specific), and this movie nearly selling out the entire theater outside the first few rows! Still a few hours before the actual showing, so maybe it can get a near sold out 470+ seat theater.
I think that Inside Out will end a little bit above Deadpool&Wolverine, but it will be an interesting run!! And both extremely successful, probably the two most successful movies of 2024 in the US
My guess would be the other way around - though the wider audience for Inside Out 2 may end up saving it.
I was able to see Lawrence of Arabia this weekend thanks to your heads up, Dan! It was fantastic! You’re a real ambassador for the classics :)
Awesome - happy to hear it!
LEGEND OF ZELDA will only stand a chance if Wes Ball works as a producer
It's the only way he can save it from AVI ARAD
Because that's how Phil Lord and Chris Miller made Spiderverse work
I would imagine Nintendo negotiated themselves final approval over all creative decisions as part of the film's development.
Doesn't guarantee the movie will turn out great, but it should prevent any one person from making questionable creative decisions.
Saw Trap and Didi this weekend. Had a lot of fun with Trap. It's very Shyamalanish, and far from a masterpiece, but I enjoy his style. Didi was a whole lot less fun. Basically a concentrated dose of every childhood memory that comes back to you as you're falling asleep to make you cringe out of your skin.
Yeah I deliberately avoided Didi. It looks depressing and not in a good way lol
Thanks for the marriage BO info, that was interesting
16:09 So, the highest grossing movies on both lines were Margot Robbie movies.
Apropos of the charts...I think Quick Change is an underrated gem. I love that film. One of my fave Bill Murray movies of all time. "Call me Chip."
You should compare Jurassic World and Deadpool and Wolverine. They had similar openings and similar legs. Thanks for the great addition to the charts.
If You Are Going To See Alien: Romulus Tell Then Dan Sent You
argylle was a kingsmen movie? I would have actually went to seen that lol
thanks Dan
What a day.
😂what did they expect when they cast Old people to play young roles...borderflop
I'm very much looking forward to a new Alien. I hope it performs well.
Hi Dan, I know it’s kind of outside your niche but any chance you’ll cover the Video Game voice actor strike? It really needs media attention
It ends with us definitely got all of those booktok women.
Borderlands opening behind week 3 of a superhero movie, the opening of a romantic drama (how often do we see those in cinemas?!), and week 4 of a legacy sequel is...bad. With a capital BAD.
Whenever someone says "just turn off your brain and enjoy the movie" I think they must have the lowest standards (or none at all) and never think for themselves. I never take them seriously once they blurt out that nonsense.
Or "it's not citizen kane......."
There's such a wide range of quality and this is a very lazy comment on movies as a whole.
28:27 Why Aquaman 2 isn't here?
We watched Jessica Alba's Trigger Warning last night. That was the best of the over-priced Netflix blockbuster action "films". Better than Red Notice or the one with Chris Evans & Ryan Gosling.
Really happy for Twisters
It Ends With Us will certainly be summers 9th movie past $100M domestic. Alien maybe the 10th. A slow summer for 100M grossers , especially conpared to 2023 which had 13 movies make the mark. If its a valid excuse, strikes slowed down the releqse schedule
Hey Dan jusy curious if you'll be making a News w/ Dan or seperate video recapping all the D23 news and some of your own thoughts on the announcements.
While I thought Borderlands wasn't as bad I expected, lowered expectations helped. I can say it did something positive for me in that it restored my faith in humanity. A father and two kids sat in front of me, both kids looked younger than 6 or 7 and they were angels, not a peep out of them while the film played. I can now use them as an example to call out adults.
Also caught Cuckoo (not as good as expected), but decent. Then caught Lawrence of Arabia, a classic.
I saw DvW a second time with my daughter, people had ruined the Gambit surprise. We are Cajun people, so she nearly died when Channing Tatum dropped the swamp french.
Edit: The audience was on Thursday night, half adults, and half boomers.
Awesome chart, as always!
We'll there goes my desire to ever see a Metroid movie made someday, straight down the toilet.
Well Dan Looks Like M3GAN Did Again She Has Beaten Borderlands lol
I love this channel. Love my movie news fix without all the gossip.
Double header this Sunday. Alien: Romulus and Coraline (3D).
Yesterday? Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds
To quote Nelson Muntz in regards to Borderlands BoxOffice:
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I though the Shallows was great.
This week I skipped going to see Borderlands in theaters, so next week to compensate, in addition to seeing Alien:Romulus I'll be checking out The Count of Monte Cristo (French movie) as well as Jour de Chasse (Hunting Daze).
Bringing my 2024 total to 65 so far.
25:30 One of the reasons Sing Sing is so slow on the rollout is because A24 REALLY wants to build good word of mouth with it. It's considered to be a front runner for next years Academy Award's and could very well win Best Picture if nothing else surprises and A24 plays their cards right.
Small suggestionwhen showing the streaming results. Could you in brackets show the original release date in theatres. So like Failure to Launch (2006). Thank.
i so want to see Cuckoo but its just not at my theatre.
Thank you for the charts Dan! Looking forward to your review of Romulus. Will you also be posting a review of “Rob Peace”? I loved Chiwetel Ejiofor’s last film “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”.
My husband and I loved your Godzilla and Kong rankings. We are super excited for your Alien rankings as it’s one of our favorite franchises. Anxious for the Alien Romulus review as well